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Recently, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President of the State, conducted an inspection in Luoyang, Henan. At Longmen Grottoes, he observed the overall layout, appearance, and representative caves and statues of the grottoes, emphasizing to the cultural relic protection workers on-site the importance of preserving, inheriting, and spreading these treasures of Chinese culture.
Longmen Grottoes has been rated by UNESCO as ‘the summit of Chinese stone carving art’, and together with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, and Maijishan Grottoes, they are known as the ‘Four Great Grottoes of China’, possessing significant historical and cultural value. In recent years, Xi Jinping has inspected all four of these major grottoes. He emphasizes that protecting and inheriting historical and cultural heritage is a responsibility to history and the people.
In the eyes of the international community, these treasures of Chinese civilization not only display the creative and inclusive nature of Chinese civilization but also embody its longstanding and ever-renewing spiritual value. This issue of ‘Lecture Hall of Xi Jinping’ invites you to follow in the footsteps of the General Secretary, to appreciate the inclusiveness and confidence of Chinese civilization.
Supervision: Yuan Tinglei, Dai Shuang, Jin Jin
Planning: Zhang Yuzhen
Document: Ren Lijun
Editor: Lu Bining
Visuals: Chen Jiajie
Proofreading: Wei Shuli
